An asteroid has been named after 19th century astronomer Annie Walker, Cambridge’s first professional female astronomer.

"The explosions of white dwarfs play a crucial role in astronomy," stated Priyam Das, a PhD student at the University of New South Wales Canberra and study leader. Das further described the findings ...

While it may surprise many, Delhi holds hidden gems for stargazers. From peaceful observatories to secret suburban skies, ...

A team of astronomers has discovered an exoplanet with one of the tightest orbit around its star, and it seems to be ...

Celebrate the Fourth with the Fireworks Galaxy, then check out the Demon Star Algol and the Full Buck Moon in the sky this ...

For only the third time in history, astronomers have detected a new interstellar visitor — an object from another star — blitzing into our solar system.

The newly observed binary system features a cataclysmic variable star, designated GOTO0650, which is in a rarely seen late stage of its evolution. This was also the first major discovery for the ...

A vast filament of gas stretching across the cosmos may help solve the mystery of the Universe’s missing matter. Astronomers ...

The object gained an official name, C/2025 N1 or 3I/ATLAS, on Wednesday. Moving at a record-setting speed for an interstellar ...

Long theorized but never observed, the first known “planet with a death wish” is described by Ilin and her colleagues in a ...

By looking at the shifting of stars in photos from the New Horizons probe, astronomers have calculated its position in the ...

Astronomers using the European Space Agency's Cheops mission have caught an exoplanet that seems to be triggering flares of ...